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November 3, 2026
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McKinney moves past Havelid after nine games at Michigan

Cole McKinney takes No. 14 with nine points in nine games. Mattias Havelid drops to No. 15 with one point in nine for the Barracuda.

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Luca Cagnoni in San Jose's black alternate sweater, crouched on the ice in warmups and laughing, with the boards and a sparse lower bowl behind him. The photograph carries no date from its source.

Cole McKinney moves past Mattias Havelid into No. 14 on the prospect board, the week's only change in order. McKinney has six goals and three assists in nine games at Michigan; Havelid, now No. 15, has no goals and one assist in nine games for the Barracuda. The case for the move is McKinney's season. His weekend at Ohio State produced one goal in two games, scored with Michigan's goalie pulled for an extra attacker.

Filip Bystedt's NHL career has begun, and Luca Cagnoni is back with the Barracuda. Bystedt went without a point in his first three NHL games; Cagnoni followed his October 27 Sharks appearance with a Barracuda game the next night and an even-strength goal against Bakersfield on November 1. The board ranks Calder-eligible prospects and does not react to where they play, leaving Bystedt eighth and Cagnoni fifth.

Joey Muldowney is the prospect of the week with two goals and three assists in two games at Merrimack. He stays No. 23; the order from No. 21 through No. 30 does not move. Ivar Stenberg holds No. 1 after going without a point in four games, leaving his season at nine points in sixteen NHL games.

Sources: NHL box scores; AHL league feed; College Hockey News box scores.

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Luca Cagnoni plays fewer than 42 regular-season games for the San Jose Sharks in 2026-27. Scored off his official NHL regular-season games-played total for San Jose only: 41 or fewer is a hit, 42 or more is a miss, including if he reaches 42 after being recalled from the Barracuda, and including if he is traded (games for another club do not count).

This is the runway argument reduced to one player's usage, which is the only part of it a stranger can score. Cagnoni is 21, has three career NHL games, put up 43 points in 67 AHL games, and is in the final season of his entry-level contract with restricted free agency arriving in July 2027. It is genuinely at risk in both directions rather than a formality: PuckPedia's own depth chart lists him second among San Jose's left-shot defensemen, ahead of Sam Dickinson, so the projection sitting in public is that he plays a lot. Against that, six defensemen are under contract, four of them hold 93.8 percent of the blue line's $30,373,750, and Cagnoni is waivers exempt while all four veterans are not, which makes him the cheapest body to move in an October crunch. An injury to Nurse, Trouba, Orlov or Kesselring is the most likely way this call loses, and that is the correct way for it to lose.

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